The Flood

The Flood of Noah’s day (2348 BC) was a year-long global catastrophe that destroyed the pre-Flood world, reshaped the continents, buried billions of creatures, and laid down the rock layers. It was God’s judgment on man’s wickedness and only eight righteous people, and representatives of every kind of land animal, were spared aboard the Ark.

Noah’s Flood: a Historical, Global Catastrophe

Examining the immense biblical data for Noah’s flood as an actual, year-long, worldwide, and catastrophic flood about 4,500 years ago.

Was Noah’s Flood Global?

Did Noah experience a local flood which left only a few sediment layers, as floods do today? God’s record is clear: the water covered the entire globe and killed all the animals on earth. Such unique conditions are the only way to explain worldwide fossil-bearing layers thousands of feet deep.

Local Floods Help Us Understand Noah’s Flood Geology

Geologists repeatedly discover the catastrophic effects of local flooding on the earth’s surface, resulting in the same conclusion each time: that substantial amounts of water can have the same geological effect in a short period of time (even laying down rock layers) that hypothesized millions of years of slow water flow would have.

Noah Did More than Build an Ark

Like people today, almost certainly the people of Noah’s day were busy enjoying the pleasures of life and did not believe or care that judgment was coming. In 2 Peter 2:5, Noah is described as a “preacher of righteousness.”

Psalm 104 and the Flood

Psalm 104:6–9 sheds important additional light on the geological effects of the Flood. “The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which You established for them” (vs. 8).

The Flood Topics

• Magazine Department Article

  Global Catastrophe—Anywhere but Earth

  

  May 19, 2024 from Answers Magazine

  Secular scientists see evidence of global catastrophe on Venus and Mars. So why can’t they admit the evidence on earth?

• Magazine Article

  Did Meteors Trigger Noah’s Flood?

  

  June 29, 2019 from Answers Magazine

  Geologists are uncovering evidence that meteors struck the earth throughout the Flood. Could they even have played a role in starting the Flood?

• In-Depth Article

  How Did Plants Survive the Flood?

  Oct. 10, 2012 from Answers in Depth

  Many critics of the Genesis account of history scoff at the idea of plants and seeds lasting for a year in fresh and salt water, therefore discounting the biblical account of the Flood.

• Magazine Article

  Did Mercury Poisoning Create a Toxic Flood?

  April 1, 2010 from Answers Magazine

  Wouldn’t the destructive forces of Noah’s Flood have released so much mercury into the environment that it would poison everything and make life impossible?

• Magazine Article

  Geologic Evidences for the Genesis Flood

  

  Dec. 26, 2007 from Answers Magazine

  This is a series of articles explaining the evidences from geology for the Genesis Flood.

• Research Paper

  Flood/Post-Flood Boundaries Within the Global Stratigraphical Record

  Dec. 1, 2003, pp. 52–55

  John Reed and I presented the northern Gulf of Mexico Basin as an example where several vertical kilometres of sedimentary strata were deposited.

• Research Paper

  Flood Models

  Dec. 1, 2000, pp. 79–80

  We did not, and do not, propose that 'most of the fossils found on the earth were buried by post-Flood catastrophes'.

• Research Paper

  McIntosh, Taylor and Edmondson Reply to Flood Models

  Dec. 1, 2000, pp. 80–82

  From our perspective, the fossil record into the Cretaceous and further, testifies strongly to God's act of judgment on this world.

• Research Paper

  Flood Models: The Need for an Integrated Approach

  April 1, 2000, pp. 52–59

  Any scientific understanding of the Biblical Flood must address the hydrology and sedimentation that occurred during the Flood and in subsequent years as the Earth settled down.

• Research Paper

  Response to Faulkner’s ‘Biblically-Based Cratering Theory’

  April 1, 2000, pp. 46–49

  Argument for an impact bombardment event surrounding the Flood that began with the onset of the Flood and continued for some time, trailing off into the post-Flood period.

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